From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe Kleine-König)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Use of data types
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:41:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100118134120.GB31345@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2703439e1001180443t761947e0idc144ced64ca3a4f@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:43:12PM +0900, Khushhua Mogambo wrote:
> Hi
> I starting to port Linux kernel to my companies new ARM based
> SoC and development board.
>
> Some of the regs is 16bits wide and some is 32bits width. I ask if
> my using u16 and u32 in place of 'unsigned short' and 'unsigned int'
> in the whole porting would be acceptable or not?
>
> In different wording, using only u16 and u32 always is considered good
> quality or bad?
I prefer using u32 over int. Still more if your register space isn't uniform.
Best regards
Uwe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 12:43 Use of data types Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-18 13:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2010-01-18 13:42 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2010-01-18 13:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
[not found] ` <4B546900.3020506@ru.mvista.com>
2010-01-19 11:57 ` Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-19 17:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-20 12:15 ` Khushhua Mogambo
2010-01-20 5:25 ` Ben Dooks
2010-01-18 13:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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